St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-12
DAKOTA DOTS AND DAsHEs.
News Notes of snteresf to the PeOpl,
OF The Great Territory.

Canton has recently established city scales
and provided for the free weighing OF all
articles bought AID so.d.sssH- eoinpels the
weighing of coal. grain, hay. straw and other
articles, and it is noted that it takes much
larger loads of coal to make ton than for
merly. Some of the dealers are reported
using all sorts of devices cto make the plan
unpopular-in some cases taking loads of
grain to private scales and claiming that they
added twenty 10 fifty pounds. Honest dealers,
however, favor the plan, aud it is relieving
the place of unfavorable impressions. There
are good many other towns where the sys-
tenn could be prOfltably introduced, especially
in weighing coal, as the temptation to
shortages OF 100 TO 800 pounds has been too
great for many OF the dealers where there
was no check upon the fraud.
One lady school teacher in Douglas county
will have Il thrilling blizzard story to relate to
her posterity. She dismissed her school in the
last blizzard aud got all her pupils safely to
their homes but two girls, and II years,
whom she took with her, having to face the
storm about one and one-haf miles. They
Travelled until dark and then laid down
wrapped in her cloak and let the snow drift
over them. They remained there until 2:30
the next day, when the teacher looked out
and found they were near a house, to which
she crawled, as she was too badly frozen to
walk. One of the children will not probably
live and the other was seriously frozen.
While the temperance meetings are adopt
ing resolutions commencing the legislature
for its strong temperance stand. there is
good deal of winking among the knowing
ones over the continuance of the saloon in
the basement of the capitol, for the use of
the members until the last week of the ses-
sion. There are many legislators, and some
other people, in favor of prohibition for
other people and bibulous privileges for
themselves.
Children cry for it-that Is, to remain in
Dakota. At the depot at Blunt the other day
a lady was noted, while waiting for the train
trying to pacify 10-year-old girl who was
crying bitterly. 1t was learned that the fam
lily moved out from the states to Suly county
a few years ago and the mother, leaving her
husband on the farm, was going back to make
her first visit and her daughter was weeping
at having to leave Dakota even for a, few
months.
A man named Davis, in Douglas county,
started during one Of the last severe storms
to carry food to children in n school house
but little ways distant. He got Off the
track and lost his way, and wandered about
all night and part of the next day. He was
found ten miles from his home. with his feet
so badly frozen that the doctors the past
week amputated both of them He will
probably survive, but will never venture out
in a blizzard again.
Material for the extension of the Manitoba
railroad is arriving at Minot at the rate of IS
to 100 car loads day. A local paper says it
is estimated that 36, 006 cars of material will
be used this season in completing the line
from Mindt to Great Falls, Mont, which is Z
the big task assigned the management. This
will require the laying of from three to four
miles of track each twenty-four hours till
snow flies.
Mitchell is piouSy resigned to the diSpen
sations OF Providence and the legislature. and
proposes to be happy even without a session
OF the supreme court. 1t is lively, prosper
GUS town and not dependent for its veal upon
an occasional visitation of half dozen judi
cial gentlemen. 1t will grow this season in
spite of courts
As there are booms at all the larger Mis-
souri, river towns-Kansas City, Omaha, Coun-
Gil Bluffs, Sioux City-it is argued that it is
working up the river and will sooner or later
take in the Dakota towns up to Bismarck. All
of them are beginning to keep an eye out
down the river to catch the mirage or shadow
of its approach.
The historical accuracy of the statement
that the girls In Il travelling theatrical troupe
that struck Dakota paid the manager $3.50 to
be released, in order that they might get mar
ried, may be questioned, but it is true that an
attractive and manageable young lady who
visits Dakota rarely need leave it if she cares
to marry.
A Number of parties about Harrison, In
Douglas county, are selling out to go to WASH
ington territory. The deep snow is what's
the matter with them, but they should re-
member that the ra,t has been an unusual
winter for snow, and that most of those who
go west of Dakota to farm want to get back
again.
The farmers in Walworth county who suf-
fered from the drouth last year have held
meetings and appointed committees to devise
means to secure their seed wheat, They
think the Milwaukee railroad should help
them, as it probably WILL else it will have lit
tie wheat to ship this year from that section.